Aeroelastic stability of smart Trailing-Edge flap helicopter rotors

19th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Shen, Jinwei ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; RIGIDITY; STIFFNESS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TORSIONAL STRESS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WIND TUNNELS;

AEROELASTIC STABILITY; CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS; DESTABILIZING EFFECT; HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES; HOMOGENEOUS EQUATIONS; ROTOR CONTROL SYSTEM; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; STABILITY CALCULATION;

AERODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EID: 85067318979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-1675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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